One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
AGNES MARTINI want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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